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Wish we had an FBI–oh we do! A full investigation will make sure that all voices are heard and we have a tapestry of voices, not just two. Hmm, we need some way to gather all this information. We should hear from others who were there and who say they are familiar with the incident. Brett Kavanaugh’s environment in addition to Ford’s testimony should factor into verifying–or denying–her claim. When we are validating accusations, circumstances matter. Neither the overreliance on environmental factors–like t he Marilyn Manson theory of school shooters–nor the erasure of anything from the past as some would like to see in Kavanaugh’s hearing provides for the complex factors that make any person who they are. When we examine someone’s integrity, the past is a part of who they are. We are surrounded with a long tradition of tales that stage whisper to us that sexual assault is a normal, if not a traditional part of private school that frat boys believe are part of their rites of passage into toxic masculinity–also know as the old boy’s network. This rapey frat boy thing is not mere fiction: a long litany of actual news events feature young men who used their power and privilege to get out of the consequences of sexual assault, their lives deemed more important to not disrupt than that of victims, forever disrupted by a justice system that refuses to let their wounds heal. Hidden behind the Ivies, violence becomes tradition and assault becomes kidding around.
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Movies like Skull and Bones, Animal House, and Private School (released in 1983 during Kavanaugh’s school days) and TV shows feature a world where boyish behavior crimes are common but consequences and parents are absent.
The world of frat boys gone bad is a familiar trope in American culture. The prep school of Kavanaugh’s narrative is a virginal version of academic heaven surely no harm can happen there? The violence of power and control that is shaped by a competitive environment where privilege protects bad behavior could not possibly have any bearing on a man 30 years after, right? That is until it comes to those prep school boys and their boys-will-be-boys antics. It’s not unusual–and in fact is too often standard to replace evidence with character and culture when adjudicating criminals. Black criminal? a product of the streets. Shoot up a school? Let’s see what video games you played. Watch any crime show and you will see the weight we put on the world of the perpetrator to mold their criminal ways. Even as more accusers come forward– two three five as of this writing–tomorrow’s testimony is set up to be a battle of the he-said-she-said–but there is a third element to this story we can’t ignore: the power of privilege.
Christine Blasey Ford will testify that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party when the pair were in high school in 1982. America is gripped this week by the Supreme Court hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, a salacious episode of reality TV involving sex, power, and privilege.